Controller

The Controller is responsible for providing consistent leadership and oversight for the overall financial health and operations of the business ensuring compliance with all federal, state and local regulations.

Essential Duties/Responsibilities*:

• Leads and manages local accounting and operational team ensuring ongoing fiscal health of the business.
• Ensures timely preparation of monthly financial statements, P&L, balance sheet as well as management of WIP, inventory, receivables, etc.
• Creates and manage annual budgets.
• Processes and reports month end close, meeting all deadlines and due dates
• Ensures timely reviews and approvals of all balance sheet accounts, including but not limited to monthly bank and general ledger account reconciliations.
• Directs and/or prepares all financial reports meeting all due dates and deadlines.
• Investigates any discrepancies and ensures that timely and accurate corrections are made.
• Implements and continually audits internal financial controls including purchasing, cash handling, disbursements, inventory, and payroll.
• Assists leadership with important financial decisions.
• Effectively manages and communicates cash flow related issues.
• Maintains compliance with all federal and state regulations.
• Provides ongoing supervision, training, coaching and feedback to improve performance and meet objectives of all assigned areas to ensure optimal performance.
• Provides leadership to designated teams through effective objective setting, delegation, and communication based on direction from senior management.
• Addresses issues of concern related to performance providing constructive and ongoing feedback and consequences if performance remains below standards.
• Ensures that all direct reports comply with required safety standards and ensure that team members are safety conscious at all times.
• Conducts frequent performance evaluations to designated team.
• Formulates and implements corrective actions as needed.
• Provides regular performance updates and recommendation to senior management.
• Responsible for effective hiring of all new team members.
• Continually searches for ways to improve results and effectiveness.
• Responsible for recommending process/operational improvement.
• Interface with other internal departments in the resolution of retail business issues as required.
• Assisting assigned team and management with various duties as requested.
• Follows all company policies and procedures, including but not limited to safety.
• Other duties as assigned.

* Duties may vary by location.

Minimum Requirements:

• 2-year college degree with an Accounting / Finance concentration and a minimum of 4 years of related experience.
• Excellent computer competency is required, including a minimum of 3-year experience Microsoft Excel, Word, and Outlook with exceptional experience in spreadsheet management.
• Excellent verbal and written communication skills.
• Must be able to communicate in English effectively, both verbally and in writing.
• Ability to manage projects and resources.
• Ability to work overtime with little notice; weekends hours may occasionally be required.

Preferred Qualifications:

• 4- year college degree with an Accounting / Finance concentration and a minimum of 2 years related experience.

Additional Knowledge, Skills and Abilities:

• Leadership skills and effective leadership behaviors
• Ability to work independently and as part of a team
• Strong work ethic
• Capable of making good judgments/decisions.
• Strong interpersonal communication and collaboration skills, will all levels of the organization
• Able to work in a fast-paced, high-pressure environment
• Proactive mindset
• Strong organizational skills, attention to detail and the ability to multi-task.
• Ability to build positive relationships with customers, both internal and external
• Willingness and ability to work collaboratively with all levels of the organization
• Safety mindset and acceptance of a safety culture

Working Conditions:

• Open office environment.
• Fast-paced environment.

Physical Requirements:

• Must be able to lift/move up to 10 pounds frequently
• Must be able to adhere to long periods of standing, walking or sitting
• Ability to hear, understand and distinguish speech and/or other sounds to operate phones or other office equipment safely
• With natural or corrected vision, able to see and focus for close, distance, peripheral vision with normal depth perception
• Ability to express or exchange ideas by means of the spoken word to impart oral information to others
• Ability to enter text or data into a computer by means of a traditional keyboard or 10-key numeric keypad
• Must be able to use arms and hands to reach overhead, signal, grab, hold, lift, turn, push and pull objects and tools